Improvement in wagon-standard supports



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GEORGE STIBER, OF GROGAN STATION, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPR OVEMENT IN WAGON-STANDARD SUPPORTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,626, dated April 9, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE STIBER, of Groga-n Station, in the county of Lycoming and in the State of Pennsylvania, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Wagon-Bolster and Standard-Supporter; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a wagonbolster and standard-supporter, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which- Fignre l is a side view, and Fig. 2 a longigitudinal vertical section of my improved supporter for wagon bolsters and standards.

A represents a top plate of any suitable dimensions, provided with inclined side pieces 13 B, connected by a bottom piece, 0, thus forming a box, which is placed on the end of a wagon-bolster. This box is fitted securely on the end of the bolster, and the top plate bolted or fastened with wood screws to the In the old way of attaching standards there was but little to support the endof the bolster outside of the mortise, and prevent it from giving out when any pressure came against the standard.'

This supporter will, in the first place, keep the bolster from splitting in any way at the end, or breaking out at the mortise where the standard passes through the bolster, or giving sidewise or backward. The standard is also held firmly between the projections D D and E, and is fastened by a bolt to the latter projection. Then any pressure against the standard must have some weight on the bolster, helping to keep the standard more solid in its place.

The supporter may be cast all in one piece, or made of separate pieces united together in any suitable manner.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The within-described supporter for wagonbolsters and standards, consisting of the top A, sides B B, bottom 0, and projections D D and E, all substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of February, 1872.

GEORGE STIBER.

Witnesses:

C. L. EVERT, JNo. F. STEvENsoN. 

